Maria P. Rolik
International Association "Ecopolis and Culture"
Moscow, 109240,
Kotelnicheskaya nabereshnaya 1/15-5, apt. 63
RUSSIA
TEL: (095) 915-4985
FAX: (095) 415-7393
The international voluntary charitable society, "Ecopolis and Culture" considers its primary work to be the creation of sociums with comfortable ecological and sociocultural surroundings, the nucleus of which is a system of uninterrupted upbringing and education. An interdisciplinary collective of scholars and practitioners is conducting a search for new approaches to child- rearing and education.
We begin with a school for parents. Its goal is raising the psychological culture of the family, for parent are the first and primary teachers of their children. In conjunction with the Moscow City Department of Education and Moscow State Pedagogical University, this year we are working in five regions of Moscow. The psychological and pedagogical literacy of the family enables it to create conditions for the creative development of their children.
This is also the goal of the Center's children's school which accepts children from the age of three. There (up until the age of ten) children acquire several "languages": music, movement, fine arts, literature, mathematics, and programming. Adolescents at another school designed for their age group develop their vision and consciousness of the world to the highest intellectual circuit. The teenager himself must create an individual plan of student and select that branch of science which he would study while continuing to perfect his skills in music and theater. The Center also has a Higher Pedagogical School, aimed at transform- ing a person's value orientation.
Immersion in creative activity encourages a person's potential reserves and returns him to the role of creator of self and environment, providing him with psychological comfort and aware- ness of his necessity to society.
Mothers play a special role in the realization of these projects since they are the basic creative conservors of the hearth.
Translated by Barbara Welling Hall
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